Write On, Mississippi: Season 4, Chapter 24: Mystery Revealed

Lost souls and intersecting destinies — steeped in arty New Orleans, gritty Brooklyn and the Kentucky backwoods — drive compelling tales from a trio of acclaimed Oxford writers.

Panelists:

Chris Offutt is the author of the novels The Killing Hills, Country Dark, and The Good Brother, the short-story collections Kentucky Straight and Out of the Woods, and three memoirs: The Same River Twice, No Heroes, and My Father, the Pornographer. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays, among many other places. He has written screenplays for Weeds, True Blood, and Treme, and has received fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations.

Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City, the poetry collection Dear Weather Ghost, and two poetry chapbooks, Arbor and Double Blind. A second poetry collection, Doll Apollo, will be published in 2022 by LSU Press, and the poetry chapbook Apollo is forthcoming in July from Condensery Press. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Fence, Southwest Review, and other magazines. Originally from Houston, Texas, Melissa studied poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Mississippi, and serves as Associate Editor of Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with two dogs, eleven chickens, and the writer Chris Offutt.

William Boyle is the author of the novels GRAVESEND, THE LONELY WITNESS, A FRIEND IS A GIFT YOU GIVE YOURSELF, CITY OF MARGINS, and SHOOT THE MOONLIGHT OUT (forthcoming November 2021), all available from Pegasus Crime.

Moderator:

Rebecca Lee Wiggs is a member of Butler Snow's litigation department and is an experienced trial attorney who now focuses her practice on pharmaceutical product liability litigation. She tried over 40 cases to jury verdicts in state and federal courts in Mississippi. She served on teams defending manufacturers of prescription and OTC products. As a result of her work deposing sensitive witnesses, she is a frequent trainer for deposition practice and jury decision-making.

Mississippi Business Journal selected her as one of its 2015 50 Leading Business Women. She also received the Mississippi Women Lawyers Association 2016 Women Lawyer of the Year Award and the Mississippi Bar's 2012 Lawyer Citizenship Award. She is a member of PORTICO Legacy Lawyers' Class of 2016 and Leadership Mississippi's Class of 1995. She is a Fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation and a Life Fellow of the American Bar Association. 

Rebecca currently serves on the Board of Visitors of Wake Forest University Divinity School, and previously served in leadership roles with the Mississippi Economic Council, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and the Mississippi Bar.

She obtained her J.D. from University of Virginia School of Law and undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University. 

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